Post by kagome on Jan 13, 2016 22:42:39 GMT -5
OK so I’ve been gone so long and I’ve had so many tank changes that I don’t even know where to begin LOL. I guess I’ll start with my 40g long. In there I only have 2 fish, a baby high-fin spotted pleco and the star attraction is my Green Sevrum, Pretty Girl, the most destructive, aggressive, and evil fish ever, I totally adore her. She attacks everything: filters, decorations, heaters, gravel vacuums, hands in her tank, overly large bubbles, rocks, faces too close to the glass of the tank, EVERYTHING. She will not tolerate any kind of bottom feeder fish but for some reason she ignores plecos, don’t ask me, she’s weird.
And she loves to eat plants, like a lot. When I first put her in the tank it was a lush garden in there. I had big beautiful Amazon swords, big Anuibis, and several varieties of Java fern. She happily destroyed one sword within a week and chewed the other down to a little nub. She ate all the leaves off the Anuibis and just left the rhizome. She ate the Java ferns, roots and all, just ate them. I was dismayed and frankly for the past 2 years have been trying different plant varieties trying to find something that could withstand her, to no avail. Finally, after much heartache and probably $100 in expensive Cichlid salad I found something that can withstand her wrath, the Red Tiger Lotus. For those who aren’t familiar with this plant, it isn’t actually a true lotus, those originate from Asia and the Tiger “Lotus” actually come from Africa (where there are no tigers or lotuses, go figure). It is actually a water lily but I don’t care if it’s related to the Redwood Tree, it is a beautiful aquatic plant that can withstand the wrath of Pretty Girl so it’s the most awesome thing ever as far as I’m concerned. This thing grows so fast that you can see that it’s bigger when you go to bed than it was when you got up in the morning, no kidding. So if she happily tears up 6 of the leaves in a day it doesn’t matter, it put out 12 new ones that day. AND she’s so busy tearing that up that some aponogeton are actually growing. I also have 2 water onions in there but she constantly pulls them out of the gravel because she likes to eat the outside of the bulb so I just let those float around for her to munch on.
Here's an overall shot of the tank
Oh no, she's spotted me!
Here she's telling me to get away from her Buddha
Here's she's telling me to get away from her plants
Here's an shot looking up at the underside of the floating leaves
And then just a general shot of that end of the tank
And she loves to eat plants, like a lot. When I first put her in the tank it was a lush garden in there. I had big beautiful Amazon swords, big Anuibis, and several varieties of Java fern. She happily destroyed one sword within a week and chewed the other down to a little nub. She ate all the leaves off the Anuibis and just left the rhizome. She ate the Java ferns, roots and all, just ate them. I was dismayed and frankly for the past 2 years have been trying different plant varieties trying to find something that could withstand her, to no avail. Finally, after much heartache and probably $100 in expensive Cichlid salad I found something that can withstand her wrath, the Red Tiger Lotus. For those who aren’t familiar with this plant, it isn’t actually a true lotus, those originate from Asia and the Tiger “Lotus” actually come from Africa (where there are no tigers or lotuses, go figure). It is actually a water lily but I don’t care if it’s related to the Redwood Tree, it is a beautiful aquatic plant that can withstand the wrath of Pretty Girl so it’s the most awesome thing ever as far as I’m concerned. This thing grows so fast that you can see that it’s bigger when you go to bed than it was when you got up in the morning, no kidding. So if she happily tears up 6 of the leaves in a day it doesn’t matter, it put out 12 new ones that day. AND she’s so busy tearing that up that some aponogeton are actually growing. I also have 2 water onions in there but she constantly pulls them out of the gravel because she likes to eat the outside of the bulb so I just let those float around for her to munch on.
Here's an overall shot of the tank
Oh no, she's spotted me!
Here she's telling me to get away from her Buddha
Here's she's telling me to get away from her plants
Here's an shot looking up at the underside of the floating leaves
And then just a general shot of that end of the tank